Quatuor Byron

The Quatuor Byron is one of Switzerland's top chamber ensembles. The group has a strong educational role; having benefited from top-notch master classes in its early years, it has organized numerous classes in turn. The Quatuor Byron was formed in the late 2000s decade at the Haute École de Musique in Geneva, where the four members were students of violinist-educator Gábor Takács-Nagy. Violinists Wendy Ghysels (now Wendy Ghysels James) and François James, violist Robin Lemmel, and cellist Coralie Devars continue to make up the quartet's membership in the early 2020s. In 2011, the quartet released its debut recording of Shostakovich's String Quartets Nos. 8 and 9. The Quatuor Byron returned to recording with the album Souvenir d'Espagne: Turina, Castelnuovo-Tedesco in 2023.